Older people affected by the Liberal Democrats’ proposed “mansion tax” could have payments deferred until after death if they are unwilling to pay up during their retirement, Nick Clegg has suggested.

Doing some homework for a radio phone-in on Ed Miliband's proposal for a 10p tax band on Thursday, I was shocked at just how high the mansion tax would have to be to pay for it.

Ed Miliband's 'working people'  sound very much like the Tories' 'strivers'

Room for two

Kidnappings for ransom are not unusual in Ireland and in the past were carried out by the IRA

After The Paradise, TV drama is once more running for the tills with Mr Selfridge. Are department stores really the new Downton?

Now what? Ascot’s royal enclosure? You can’t park your bike there, son

Four former and serving ambulance staff and a hospital worker have been arrested over the death of a man outside an A&E department earlier this year.

Kauto Star won five King Georges and two Cheltenham Gold Cups

Estate agent Winkworth yesterday warned the Chancellor's tax grab on overseas buyers was casting a shadow over the top end of the London property market.

Ed Balls got a laugh for saying Osborne was 'waivering not drowning'

The amount of money that people will be able to pay into their pension pots without paying tax on it could be slashed by up to a third as part of a £1.8bn raid on tax relief.

A supergrass who was helping prosecutors uncover a multi-million pound money laundering scheme used by corrupt officials in Russia has died in mysterious circumstances outside his Surrey home, i can reveal.